Au Revoir

Gimme your address and you'll get one. If you've already given me your address sometime in the past and want a postcard, give it to me again so I know you want one and that I have it right. If you want something fancier than a postcard let me know and I'll see what I can do. Make sure I get your address by this Friday please.

"Ok, this is the black-and-white camera so your job is to look indigent in these pictures."

"Ok, indignant it is!"

"NO! Not indignant, indizinous! I mean, indignant."

"Wait, what?"

Some of them turned out indigent. Some of them turned out to be a lot goddamn crazier than indizinous.

What do the following mean?

Non, je ne regrette rien

and...

Ca valait la peine

"The prisoner wishes to say a word."

[The crowd silences in anticipation.]

[Gag, gag, gasp] "Freeeeeeeeedoooooooooooooooooommmmmm!"

I am so Braveheart right now, except with smaller muscles and drastically-reduced leadership skills.

I'm at The Big Dipper talking to the little boy from across the way and "Space Oddity" starts playing on the tv radio ( Read more... )

The Passion of the Christ ( Read more... )

Mere elegance of language can produce at best but an empty renown.

--Petrarch, Letter to Posterity

George Bush doesn't have to worry about having an empty renown, I guess. I wonder what kind of renown retardation of language gets.

The Presidential Prayer Team is currently urging us to: "Pray for the ( Read more... )

You walk around campus and you can't avoid the kids wearing sweatshirts with the names and insignias of other colleges emblazoned on them. "Why would they do that?" I wonder. Wearing the sweatshirt of a college that you don't go to at the college that you do go to only tells people that you weren't good enough to get into the school that you ( Read more... )